Privacy is coming my friend. STEEM is giving freedom of speech to the masses. It is truly bringing power back to the people. I appreciate having you here. - The STEEM blockchain is very powerful. It is also the fastest blockchain around right now. MAIDSAFE has 0 working product. We have yet to see if it will ever work.
STEEM will be implementing the Ring Confidential transactions :
https://steem.io/roadmap/confidential/
Dude. Facebook is an example of MaidSafe. While the CIA can still see it, that doesn't make it less useful.